Available Projects for Summer Research Students

1

A Football Field in a Teaspoon: Making Really High Surface Area Electrodes

2

Advanced Composite Fibers and Materials from Ionic Liquid Solutions

3

Asymmetric Reaction Methodology

4

Atomic Force Microscopy of DNA - Doing Chemistry on Single DNA Strands

5

Beyond Raney Nickel: Next Generation Hydrogenation Catalysts

6

Binding of Potential Drugs to Cytochrome P450

7

Biochemistry of Chromium

8

Bioorganic Reaction Mechanisms of Enzymes

9

Biophysical Studies of Protein Dynamics

10

Biorefineries: Recovery of Chemicals from Biomass using Ionic Liquids

11

Components for Assembly of Molecular Electronics

12

Computational  Geochemistry for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

13

Computational Approaches to Advanced Energy Systems - Actinide and Lanthanide Chemistry

14

Computational Biochemistry: Acid/Base Properties and Thermochemistry of Peptides

15

Computational Main Group Chemistry

16

Computational Studies of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions

17

Crystal Engineering: Applications of X-Ray Diffraction Techniques

18

Development of Novel Catalytic Reaction Methodology

19

DNA as a Tool for Molecular Recognition

20

DNA-binding Molecules

21

Electrochemical sensors

22

Ethics in Chemistry

23

Fluorescent Liposomes as Functional Nanoreactors

24

Gas-phase Structures of Peptide Ions

25

Green Chemistry: Fundamentals to Applications

26

Growing Organic Crystals and Determining Their Crystal Structure - Exploring New Ways to Control Molecular Packing

27

How to Dramatically Improve the Graetzel Solar Cell

28

Hydrogen Storage Opportunities with Novel Valence Structures

29

Inhibition of DNA Repair Proteins by Heavy Metal and Their Relationship to Cancer

30

Inorganic Complexes as Models for Solar Energy Conversion

31

Inorganic-Organic Composite Solar Cells

32

Ionic Liquids as New Pharmaceuticals

33

Mass Spectrometry of Explosives

34

Mass Spectrometry Studies of Peptides

35

Mass spectrometry Studies to Characterize Protein-Protein Interactions

36

Medium Ring Carbocycles and Cytotoxic Xenia Diterpenoids

37

Metallotherapeutics

38

Metals and Free Radicals in Proteins

39

Monolayers of Organic Unimolecular Rectifiers

40

Nanoparticle Synthesis for Solar Cell Applications

41

Nanoparticles for Fuel Cell Electrocatalysis

42

Nanoparticles from Complexed Precursors

43

Nanostructured Metal Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes

44

New Catalysts for Environmentally Benign Synthesis

45

New Dyes for Non-Linear Optical Applications – Advanced Materials 

46

New Organic Molecules as Catalysts with "Turn-On/Off" Activity

47

New Reagents for Organic Synthesis

48

Novel Antiinflammatory and Anticancer Agents

49

Novel Energetic Materials for next Generation Propulsion

50

Organic hybrid solar cells

51

Organofluorine Chemistry

52

Organometallic Catalysts in Organic Synthesis

53

Photocatalysis using Nanoparticles for Solar Energy Conversion and Pollutant Degradation

54

Photoreactive Crosslinking to Identify New Protein-Protein Interactions in Biological Samples

55

Polymer Micelles for a Magnetically Triggered, Targeted Drug Delivery System

56

Polymer Waveguides for Explosives Detection

57

Raman Analysis of Fingerprints

58

Self-assembled FePt Nanoparticles for High Density Magnetic Recording

59

Solar Cell Interfaces

60

Spin-dependent Electron Tunneling through Organized Monolayers

61

Stable Phosphorus-derived Biradicals and their Chemistry

62

Supramolecular Chemistry: Interactions beyond the Covalent Bond

63

Synthesis of Agents for the Treatment of Diabetes

64

Synthesis of Asymmetrically Substituted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

65

Synthesis of Inorganic Materials Using Biological Templates

66

Synthesis of Modified DNAs and RNAs.

67

Synthesis of New Semiconducting Materials

68

Synthesis of Organic Electron Transport Relays to Improve Efficiency of Solar Cells

69

Synthesis of Unusual Valence Structures

70

The Future of Unimolecular Electronics

71

Thermodynamics of Combustion

72

Thin Film Synthesis of Novel Oxide Materials Using Pulsed Laser Deposition

73

Total Synthesis of Natural Products

74

Ultrasensitive detection of small molecules using spectroelectrochemistry